Questions Asked of the Court: A Fireside Chat on Standard-Essential Patents Online Event 5 May 2021, 16h00 – 17h00 CET/10h00 – 111h00 EST Technical standards for interoperability enable billions of devices connected to the internet, opening new avenues of growth for innovative firms, including thousands of small and medium enterprises [...]
Here at ACT | App Association, we care about the app economy – because our members drive it and the larger ecosystem of developer services, funding, and workforce development it created. Alongside the rise of the smartphone and other smart technologies that rely on apps, the app ecosystem grew exponentially [...]
Every startup begins with the identification of a problem, followed by ideas to solve it. For the Belgian app maker SyndoHealth, this problem is helping patients with chronic diseases cope with their illnesses. Their solution is mobile technologies and wearables. In the European Union (EU), common chronic illnesses account for [...]
Following multiple public consultations, the European Commission released a proposal for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on 16 December 2020 (see our statement here). If enacted, this legislation could significantly impact the way the app economy functions. In this blog, we dive into the DMA proposal and what it means for small [...]
In February and March 2021, ACT | The App Association and Competition Policy International (CPI) are collaborating on a series of webinars discussing how antitrust regulation works in the digital world. During the first event of the series, five experts explored the key issues surrounding the European Commission’s Digital Markets [...]